Wet Flanders Plain by Williamson, Henry - 1929

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Stated first edition. Boards rubbed and soiled. Missing dust jacket. Bookplate and ink inscription on front endpapers. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.

Stated first edition. 8vo in publisher's cloth. 122 pp. G+. Moderate wear to corners and spine ends. Slight spine slant. Light foxing to board edges. Ownership signature of actor Edward Herrmann on the ffep. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

Hardback. Acceptable.

New York: Dutton, 1929. First. hardcover. very good. 122 pages, 8vo, black and yellow cloth, paper spine label; spine ends and lower corners slightly frayed. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., (1929). First edition. Internally fine, a very good copy.<br/><br/>

Faber and Faber, 1929. a clean tidy copy of this scarce book. lacks free front endpaper and half-title.. Revised Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Octavo.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1929. Book. See Description. Original Black Cloth. Revised Edition. 7 1/2" x 5". 148 pages. '...easily the best anti-war book written in English... recounts the nine days which he spent on 'The Wet Flanders Plain' when he revisited France as what he calls 'soldat retourne'... Through his ghostly eyes he sees the waste, the wickedness, the folly, in blessed proportion.' From Mr. Humbert Wolfe's review in The Observer, quoted on the dw. Hb in dw, formerly a very good copy which has sadly suffered from storage in a damp place, but is now dry and free from any aroma due to damp. However, the damp has resulted in the rear endpaper becoming completely detached; it is undamaged and could be simply re-glued to the inside of the rear board. The front endpaper is partially detached from the edges, and again could be re-glued. The black cloth binding is fairly uniformly lightened from the damp; very slight fraying at the top of the spine, at… Read More

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1929. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A sombre piece written about the author's experiences during the First World War, ten years on after his return to visit the battlefield. This work was written after the author had returned to the Western Front in order to find some closure after the trauma of battle.Henry Williamson (1895-1977) was an English author, best known for his work 'Tarka the Otter'. A great deal of his work concerned wildlife; however, a number of his earlier works deal with his time spent as a rifleman during the First World War. After the war, he believed that it had been futile and caused by greed, and strongly believed that Germany and Britain should never go to war again. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with a small chip to both the head and tail of the spine, which is a little cocked. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed

Dutton, 1929., 1929. 1st ed. 122p. Original Black & yellow cloth with paper title label. Account of a post-war journey back to the battlefields where the novelist had served as an officer in the MGC. Very Good Copy. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Book.

Faber, London, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First trade edition (following a limited edition of 400 copies issued by Beaumont the previous year; this Faber issue very slightly revised). 8vo. 147pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge dust marked and the endpapers very lightly browned. A trace of miscellaneous staining to occasional leaf margins. Very good in tanned, edgeworn and internally repaired dust wrapper with a small area of loss from the head of the spine panel (impacting 'The'). 2990 copies were printed. A fusion of Williamson's two post-war visits to the Western Front battlefields, the first in 1925 and again in 1927, arranged in a loose diary format and merging his recollections with the contemporary scene..

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1929. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 122 pages, first American Edition, light stain on rear board, rare edition of this special book..